What we measure
These tools are free and need no account, so we measure how they are used to learn what helps.
This page says exactly what that means, because a vague privacy promise is worth less than a specific one.
Your files are parsed in your browser and sent only if you ask
Several tools here ask you to drop in a cloud billing export: an AWS CUR, a Google Cloud billing export, a FOCUS file, a BigQuery job history. Those files are read and analyzed by JavaScript running on your own machine. They are not uploaded, and no value read out of them is transmitted anywhere unless you ask us to email you a result and tick the box to include its figures, or choose to share the data with us for a review (both below). Without one of those, this is a property of how the tools are built, not a policy we apply to data we receive, because we do not receive it.
What is recorded
| Which page you are on, and when | The page, the tool it belongs to, and the time each event arrives. To know which tools get used rather than merely found. |
| That you stayed on the page | Once per page: that the page had been open for ten seconds and you scrolled, moved the pointer, pressed a key or used the tool in that time. It tells a person reading apart from a script that loads the page and leaves. |
| That you used a tool | Once per page: that you typed, chose an option, pasted, dropped or picked a file, or pressed a button inside the tool, and which of those it was. Never what you typed. |
| That a tool showed you a result | Once per page, after you used the tool: that a figure appeared. Not the figure. |
| Where you arrived from | The referring site and any utm_ tags on the link. The site name only, not the full address of the page. |
| Approximate location | Country, state or province, and city, which Google's load balancer works out from your connection and passes on. We do not store the IP address it is based on. |
| Time zone and language | As your browser reports them, for example America/Chicago and en-US. |
| Browser, system and device class | The browser family and its major version (for example Chrome 141), the operating system family, phone, tablet or computer, and a rough screen size. Not the full browser identification string. |
| A visit number for this tab | A random number kept in the page's memory, so the events of one visit can be counted together. It is gone when you close or reload the tab, and nothing is saved on your device. |
| That a calculator produced a result | With the numbers and options you entered in that calculator, the same input state the "copy link to this result" button puts in the URL. Not the result. |
| That a file was loaded | Its type or detected format, and its size and row count as broad buckets. Never its name or its contents. |
| When a tool declines to answer | The most useful thing here. It tells us where the tools have gaps. |
| Exports, shared links and emailed results | That they happened, to know which tools are worth anyone passing on. |
| Links you follow out of this site | The site you went to. For Finitizer's own sites (services, finitizer.com, the CRM and the docs), also the page, to know which service or product a tool led you to. |
| What you type into the tool search | A search that finds nothing is a tool we have not built yet. |
What is never recorded
- The contents of any file you load. It never leaves your browser, unless you choose "Share for a review" (see "When you share data for a review").
- The name of any file you load, other than in a share you choose to make.
- Any value parsed out of a file, including totals, service names and dates.
- Account, project, subscription or resource identifiers.
- Your IP address, with any usage event. It is used in memory to make the anonymous key below, then discarded. A rating you send is the one exception (see "When you rate a tool").
- Anything you type or paste into a tool that reads your own data, as opposed to a calculator.
- Your full browser identification string, or any finer location than a city.
- Cookies, local storage, device fingerprints, or any cross-site identifier.
- Your name, email or employer. The "Rate this tool" box asks you to leave these out, and removes any email address typed into it.
No cookies, and no way to follow you
This site sets no cookies and writes nothing to your device. To tell one visitor apart from another without doing either, our server makes a key by hashing your IP address and browser identification together with a random value that is thrown away and replaced every day. The IP address is used for that and then discarded. The visit number described above lives only in the open tab.
The consequence is deliberate: the key cannot be linked to yesterday’s data even by us, because the value used to make yesterday’s key no longer exists. Returning tomorrow, you count as a new visitor. Several colleagues behind one office connection count as one. That undercounts, which is the right direction for a number like this to be wrong in.
If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, nothing is recorded at all, unless you send a rating or ask for an emailed result yourself. A rating sent that way leaves out the visit number, the IP address and its network, and the referring site.
When you ask us to email you a result
Most tools have an optional “Email me this result” panel. It lists what will be sent before anything is. When you press the button, these go to Finitizer’s CRM at crm.finitizer.com, which sends you the email: your email address; your name and company if you typed them; the tool’s name and a link to the page as you set it up, including anything the page keeps in its address, such as calculator inputs or a maturity assessment’s ratings; and the figures shown, on a calculator by default and on a tool that reads your own data only if you tick the box. The BigQuery Cost Check sends its totals and the kinds of saving it found, never dataset names, query shapes or query results. If you arrived through a partner’s referral link, its code is sent too, so the partner is credited.
We keep the request as a business contact, may follow up once by hand, and do not add you to any automated sequence. The monthly price-change email is sent only if you tick its box, and every email has an unsubscribe link. None of this is used for the usage measurement on this page, which still records no name, address or figure.
The Cloud & AI Cost Readiness Assessment
This assessment is the exception: it requires your name and email address. It runs on crm.finitizer.com, not on this site. When you submit, your name, email address, all 25 answers, your scores, the page you came from and your browser’s identification string are saved in Finitizer’s CRM, and the team is notified by email. Your score is shown on screen, and we email you the overall score and level. While you answer, your answers are kept on your device so a reload does not lose them, and cleared once you submit.
When you rate a tool
Every tool ends with a “Rate this tool” panel. Nothing is sent until you press Send feedback. Then these go to Finitizer: the tool, the number of stars, anything you typed in the box, and the date and time.
With them go your IP address and the network it belongs to, which we use to spot abuse and to see which kinds of organization use the tools, never to contact you or for advertising; your country, state or province and city, worked out by Google’s load balancer from your connection; your browser family and its major version, operating system, and whether you are on a phone, tablet or computer; your time zone and language; the site that linked you to the page; how long the page had been open; and this tab’s visit number, so a rating can be read beside what the visit did.
No name or email is asked for, and an email address typed into the box is removed before the rating is stored. The panel does not remember your rating on your device, so it asks again on your next visit.
Where it goes and how long it stays
Each event, and each rating, is written to our own Google Cloud logs, which keep it for 30 days, and copied into our own BigQuery in the same Google Cloud project for longer-term reporting. Usage events identify no one, so they are kept as long as they are useful for that. Ratings, which carry an IP address, are read only by the team that builds these tools. Neither is shared with, sold to, or processed by any advertising network or third-party analytics provider. There is no Google Analytics on this site, no tag manager, and no advertising pixel of any kind.
Separately, as on any website, our servers keep standard request logs (the page requested, the time, the IP address and the browser), which Google Cloud deletes after 30 days.
The formal documents
This page describes what this particular site does, in plain terms. The binding versions are maintained by Finitizer and cover the company as a whole: